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Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

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Jerry Bridges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 4
Died: 2016
Died: March 6
Author
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Tyler
Texas
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God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.
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Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
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Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.
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God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.
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... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.
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So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please God without taking the time to walk with Him and develop a relationship with Him. This is impossible to do.
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We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
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Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
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Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life he died to save us from the wrath of God.
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God's guidance is almost always step-by-step He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.
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Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.
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Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
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Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit's work in our lives to produce the desire and the means to pursue peace. But we are also responsible to use the means He has given us and to take all practical steps to attain both peace within and peace with others.
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Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him that all that we are and have comes from God.
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Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.
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The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
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The grace that brought salvation to you is the same grace that teaches or disciplines you. But you must respond on the basis of grace, not law.
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